[Rule-list] Slinky enhancements

[Ed Blackman]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:03:05PM +0300, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> Some items for future slinky wish list:

I'm working on a port of the slinky scripts to a more capable
language, partially to make it easier to add these kinds of things.

> 1 - remote access to multiple cd's (e.g. nfs)

If you're talking about accessing the CDs as ISO images over NFS, this
is already in the (incomplete) port.  If you're talking about mounting
a remote CD drive, that shouldn't be hard.

> 2 - access to iso images on a vfat partition as well as ext2 (I noticed that 
> by substituting "-t vfat" for "-t ext2" on both disks slinky worked but the 
> iso image names needed to be shortened to 8.3 format.)

Easy to add...

> 3 - more loops to tolerate typos rather than a fatal script halts.

This is the primary reason for my port.  Shell script makes holding
the necessary information rather awkward.

Ed
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